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PHOTO: Author Michael Crichton.

Crichton's modernly medieval tapestry

Forsooth, methinks Michael Crichton's new high-tech science thriller has medieval trappings. Gadzooks! It's about quantum time travel to 14th century France! Timeline, Crichton's swashbuckling novel, could be another otherworldly blockbuster like Jurassic Park. In this book, futuristic quantum technology kicks into reverse, colliding with European history. The result: a classic adventure in which cutting-edge scientists and scholars from 1999 go back 600 years to encounter black knights, brigands, broadswords and plenty of boiling oil. Readers will love this book for the way it commingles old and new: chivalry and physics, cauldrons and computers, photons and gunpowder.

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